Its sad 90% of all posts now are "requests" almost not even worth lookin at it anymore. Almost as bad as spam.

supersmoke
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Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:44 pm Post subject:

A PM was sent to the biggest offender.

Quite honestly, people don't even need to reply in the Requests or Added forum, unless it's something useful, like a bump or an additional sample or carrying a discussion about the band etc...

If people continue to abuse the two forums, by replying to dozens of threads at a time with a single word or a single smiley, then replying in those two forums may be disabled. It becomes agitating to go through dozens of threads only to see that someone just posted a damn smily for no reason other than to signify that they voted yes or no. Just make your vote and be done with it, no one needs to know what your vote was. We can see the total votes at the top of the thread and that's all that's important after we look at and listen to the album being requested.

I'm quite sure that It is even more frustrating for Jeric to go through the forum himself and see pages and pages of threads and have to surf through threads he may or may not have looked at before because some jackoff bumped 5-6 pages worth of old and new threads._________________ ヽヽ༼༼ຈຈل͜ل͜ຈຈ༽༽ﾉﾉ TURN DOWN THAT MUSIC IT'S SHAKING MY HOUSE

What people dont realize is that the fewer quality requests they make, the better visibility and chances towards the album getting added. Too many requests and there is always a chance Jeric/BQ could miss it. In addition, its not possible to add everything that gets released, even though the Purple ones try their best to keep everyone happy.

Quite honestly, people don't even need to reply in the Requests or Added forum, unless it's something useful, like a bump or an additional sample or carrying a discussion about the band etc...

If people continue to abuse the two forums, by replying to dozens of threads at a time with a single word or a single smiley, then replying in those two forums may be disabled. It becomes agitating to go through dozens of threads only to see that someone just posted a damn smily for no reason other than to signify that they voted yes or no. Just make your vote and be done with it, no one needs to know what your vote was. We can see the total votes at the top of the thread and that's all that's important after we look at and listen to the album being requested.

I'm quite sure that It is even more frustrating for Jeric to go through the forum himself and see pages and pages of threads and have to surf through threads he may or may not have looked at before because some jackoff bumped 5-6 pages worth of old and new threads.

Yeah i know where your coming from. Im not gonna bullshit ya i was an offender just to get to 2500. But thats all i needed so i stopped. Its just annoying to see 4 threads (community, music, RIP, Ideas usually) followd by 40 threads of request. Its like WTF... i dont even look at them i just mark them read.

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Death_Medic
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Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:50 am Post subject:

I do agree it is getting out of hand, While I myself do like saying yes or no, I'll try to put something else and it is annoying to come back and have 2 pages of forums to go through (honestly I just mark most as read too)._________________- Does this hurt ? -

slothhead
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Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:12 am Post subject:

ill b honest i'm also an offender of putting just 1 word down but i do agree that it's getting out of hand_________________folk is the answer

It's hard to say no when people request stuff._________________Kicking Theon in the crotch only makes him stronger!

Death_Medic
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Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:41 pm Post subject:

It's one of those yes it is but no it isn't. When you bring back request threads from 5 years ago yes it's spam._________________- Does this hurt ? -

Azdragar
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Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:36 pm Post subject:

Ken, you're right posting this but the same time you're wasting your time with something everyone knows but no one would care, specially the mods/admins. You can have a very long supersmoke post, saying you can't do this, you have to do this, etc, etc, or any mod saying ppl have to change they way they post, but what definitively would change the spam/posting, is to only let the ppl post 1 comment as much or to disable the reply option. Anyways things are gonna be the same always, unless some serious person take corrective actions on this issue. Months ago i suggested to disable posting on the added forum but the answer was "ppl is free to post, bla, bla, bla..."_________________----------------
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supersmoke
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Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:50 pm Post subject:

Jvan wrote:

Ken, you're right posting this but the same time you're wasting your time with something everyone knows but no one would care, specially the mods/admins. You can have a very long supersmoke post, saying you can't do this, you have to do this, etc, etc, or any mod saying ppl have to change they way they post, but what definitively would change the spam/posting, is to only let the ppl post 1 comment as much or to disable the reply option. Anyways things are gonna be the same always, unless some serious person take corrective actions on this issue. Months ago i suggested to disable posting on the added forum but the answer was "ppl is free to post, bla, bla, bla..."

It's pretty forward and direct, and up until a few days ago, there was never an issue.

Now we do have an issue and prior to Dark making this thread mods/admins were discussing it, and we still are. The warning's been made here and hopefully people will be able to handle not making useless replies anymore. Nobody wants to have to lock any forums here, but if people continue to abuse the two forums then it may very well happen._________________ ヽヽ༼༼ຈຈل͜ل͜ຈຈ༽༽ﾉﾉ TURN DOWN THAT MUSIC IT'S SHAKING MY HOUSE

misanthrone
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Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:22 pm Post subject:

good point from Dark, I don't even bother to keep an eye on request forum_________________None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free - Goethe

Ken, you're right posting this but the same time you're wasting your time with something everyone knows but no one would care, specially the mods/admins. You can have a very long supersmoke post, saying you can't do this, you have to do this, etc, etc, or any mod saying ppl have to change they way they post, but what definitively would change the spam/posting, is to only let the ppl post 1 comment as much or to disable the reply option. Anyways things are gonna be the same always, unless some serious person take corrective actions on this issue. Months ago i suggested to disable posting on the added forum but the answer was "ppl is free to post, bla, bla, bla..."

It's pretty forward and direct, and up until a few days ago, there was never an issue.

Now we do have an issue and prior to Dark making this thread mods/admins were discussing it, and we still are. The warning's been made here and hopefully people will be able to handle not making useless replies anymore. Nobody wants to have to lock any forums here, but if people continue to abuse the two forums then it may very well happen.

Thanks, now maybe we can back to the old forums when there was actuall convorsations going on.

Coolbrutal
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Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:20 pm Post subject:

if you do not want to look not look if this is the question.
the site is free for orders and opinions, not their preferences that people will change._________________Human All Too Human

diginferno
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Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:49 pm Post subject:

It should also be free from SPAM. That IS spam._________________diginferno